I do, but generally when I go I race the 65 and dont show it. Sometimes I pit at the edge of the show field, so look for me..I'll have the 65 Gran Sport again this spring, it's red with a white top - looks like this:

BTW - The Sun Coupe was a two year option only: in 72 it was a sliding fabric roofed Skylark hard top, and in 73 it was a power sunroofed Century coupe - I dont recall any Appollo's built, but I could be wrong..I could be wrong about only two years too

Bigpig455 wrote:I do, but generally when I go I race the 65 and dont show it. Sometimes I pit at the edge of the show field, so look for me..I'll have the 65 Gran Sport again this spring, it's red with a white top - looks like this:

BTW - The Sun Coupe was a two year option only: in 72 it was a sliding fabric roofed Skylark hard top, and in 73 it was a power sunroofed Century coupe - I dont recall any Appollo's built, but I could be wrong..I could be wrong about only two years too

I will look for it, maybe you know my friend Dom,hes got a silver 70 GS with a black top,he races too, it leaves wheels up all the time. Usually goes about 10.15 -20 around there.

The dial on the dark car is in the 11's, the white car in the12's . I remember they surprised me ..those cars arent light and they didnt look like much! A well set up Buick 455 can pull some weight though.

Hell, even the 65 runs well on what amounts to a box stock 401 Electra motor. No cam or tri-power or fancy anything, it just loves having 1000 less lbs to launch.....

Finally got the 73 Stage 1 to the track - short story is it ran a best of 14.29 @ 95.3. Thats without any tuning or anything, just drove up to the track and ran (and drove it home!). Still needs much work, I think the cam needs to be re-degreed because the car needs a very strange timing curve to even idle or run....

And I got the A/C going! Replaced the compressor clutch bearing and 3 lbs of R-12 later.....35 degree A/C. I love GM!

Car has been down for the last couple weeks becuase the distributor I built is chewing itself up, but other than that, and pretty good season so far.